In July 2013 Sinanyan supported the establishment of a memorial to Korean comfort women in the Glendale Central Park , over the objections of the government of Japan and dozens of Japanese-Americans . Sinanyan spoke at the unveiling of the memorial in late July , citing his own background as the grandson of an Armenian Genocide survivor and asserting : " The best way to resolve conflicts ... the best way to heal wounds ... is to acknowledge them . My people , my grandfather , were subjected to a horrible , horrible crime ... To this day , because no apology has come , no proper acknowledgement has come ... the wound is deep , it 's festering , and there can be no moving forward without it "
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Zareh Sinanyan