UN rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday slammed the brutality of a crackdown on protestors by government forces in Libya and Syria, saying the actions were shocking in their disregard for human rights. Rights group say that more than 1,000 people have been killed and 10,000 others arrested since the revolt began in Syria. Pillay said, resorting to lethal or excessive force against peaceful demonstrators not only violates fundamental rights, including the right to life, but serves to exacerbate tensions and tends to breed a culture of violence. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also renewed a call to the Syrian regime to allow a fact-finding mission to visit the country. She noted that authorities in Yemen and Bahrain have both responded to separate mission requests, with Yemen agreeing to a visit in late June and dates to be worked out with Bahrain. The UN Human Rights Council had ordered that a mission be sent to probe the situation in Syria during its April 29 special session on the situation in the country.