Mr Pinheiro wants full and free access to political prisoners
UN human-right investigator Paulo Sergio Pinheiro has arrived in Burma - the first time he has been allowed him to visit the country for four years.
Mr Pinheiro hopes to meet political prisoners and find out exactly how many people died when protests against the government were crushed in September.
The military says 10 people died. Others put the figure at more than 100.
The UN investigator has said he will leave immediately if the authorities fail to co-operate.
Mr Pinheiro, the UN's independent human rights investigator for Burma, has not been allowed to go there since November 2003.
His visit comes days after UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari spent six days in Burma, meeting a number of ministers as well as detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The UN said afterwards that a path to "substantive dialogue" was now under way.
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