What genocide in Sudan?

Can someone please tell me what it is with the U.N. Security Council and matters pertaining to conflict on the African continent?

"A U.N. special commission, which refused to declare the widespread killings in Sudan to be acts of "genocide," has been criticised for restraining its condemnation of the massacre of some 400,000 Sudanese in that politically troubled African nation." -allAfrica.com

Here we go again...it's almost as if the U.N. were a film company that just signed on to produce the sequel to "Hotel Rwanda."

I think we need a serious overhaul in the way this body functions. It seems kind of sad that the United States is the only country so far that is openly labeling Sudanese government actions as being synonymous with genocide. I mean, I hate to whip out the dictionary here, but I think the Security Council leaves me with no choice...

genocide (noun) :

The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

The pro-government Arab janjaweed militia seems pretty intent on displacing and exterminating hundreds of thousands of ethnic African Muslims. So where does that leave us? Two words: political self-interest. What else is new with the Security Council? Russia and China are permenant members of the body with no intention of straining relations with Khartoum.

" 'On the U.N. Security Council, both Russia and China continue to oppose sanctions, for their own economic and political interests,' says Ann-Louise Colgan, director for policy analysis and communications at Washington-based Africa Action, one of the oldest non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on African affairs. 'China is the single largest investor in the oil industry in Sudan, and Russia also has interests in continuing to sell weapons and other military equipment to the Khartoum regime,' she added. 'But neither China nor Russia wishes to antagonise the Government of Sudan, and neither one wishes to set a precedent for international intervention (or even punitive action) based on human rights concerns because of their own internal repression of ethnic communities,' Colgan told IPS." -Inter Press Service

This seems to be a continuing trend with China and Russia, the two ex-Communist (correction: one ex-Communist "mafia runs everything" state, one pseudo-capitalist authoritarian regime) superpower wannabes of the post-Cold War era. I guess they figure while they can't stand up to the U.S. using their own resources, military or otherwise, they can still show us up at the U.N., just like they did during the fiasco over Iraq not too long ago. Pride and self-interest is such a shame really. Especially when it is at the cost of others' lives...