"UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein today warned the Government of Myanmar that its ?short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous” approach to handling the crisis in northern Rakhine - including its failure to allow independent monitors accesss to the worst affected areas - could have grave long-term repercusssions for the country and the region. ?The repeated dismissal of the claims of serious human rights violations as fabrications, coupled with the failure to allow our independent monitors access to the worst affected areas in northern Rakhine, is highly insulting to the victims and an abdication of the Government?s obligations under international human rights law,” Zeid said..."