; and (B) encourage education and public understanding of the facts of the Armenian Genocide, including the United States role in the humanitarian relief effort, and the relevance of the Armenian Genocide to modern-day crimes against humanity . (3) Today, those who deny that the Ottoman Empire systematically planned, organized, and implemented a campaign of genocide against Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, Chaldean, Syriac, Aramean, Maronite, and other Christians or who seek to distort the true nature of these crimes continue to find forums, especially online. This denial and distortion dishonors those who were persecuted, murdered, dispossessed, and exiled, making it even more of a national imperative to educate students in the United States so that they may explore the lessons that these crimes provide for all people, sensitize communities to the circumstances that gave rise to these crimes, and help youth be less susceptible to the falsehood of genocide denial and distortion and to the destructive messages of hate that arise from denial and distortion. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Armenian Genocide The term Armenian Genocide means Ottoman Turkey’s systematic and deliberate state-sponsored mass murder, national dispossession, cultural erasure, and exile of millions of Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Syriacs, Arameans, Maronites, and other Christians, between 1915 and 1923. (2) Armenian Genocide education program The term Armenian Genocide education program means a program that has as its specific and primary purpose the improvement of awareness and understanding of the history, lessons, consequences, and ongoing costs of the Armenian Genocide, and which will serve as a means of promoting justice and preventing genocide, hate, and bigotry against any group of people. (3) Denial The term denial refers to discourse and propaganda that claims that the Armenian Genocide did not take place. (4) Distortion The term distortion refers specifically to any attempt to excuse or minimize, in its entirety or in its