Very true Dave,

Kofi Annan declared it to be the gravest, most serious crisis facing humanity just over two years ago. Colin Powell went there and came away talking about genocide (which it surely is) and the UN, France, Germany and China back peddled like hell - Why? Because if the UN declares that it is genocide then the UN and its member states are COMPELLED to act under the terms of its Charter - that's why the displacement of over two million people and the deaths of over 300,000 are not genocide - there again the man at the helm (Kofi Annan) did not recognise what happened in Rwanda as genocide either, must just be a matter of scale, not intent.