Sure, the United Nations has been utterly worthless at stopping the numerous genocidal massacres that have occurred on their watch. But don’t worry—they’re better now: U.N. more able to prevent genocide, conference told.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than a decade after the United Nations was criticized for failing to stop genocide in Rwanda, the world body is more able to prevent another such atrocity, scholars and U.N. officials said on Wednesday.

The idea that internal affairs were outside the scope of international involvement had been a “crucial inhibitor to effective responses over a generation,” Gareth Evans, president of the International Crisis Group, told a U.N. conference.

But faced with violence like that in Sudan’s Darfur region — where some 200,000 have died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes since 2003 — the world had been more ready to accept the need to intervene on behalf of vulnerable populations, conference participants said, even if intervention has been too little, too late.

Why, just today they sprang into action and deplored the crushing of Myanmar protests.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China joined Western powers for the first time to deplore Myanmar’s crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations and call for political dialogue there in a statement by the U.N. Security Council on Thursday.