People caught up in riots in Burma last year have told their harrowing stories in a new human rights report funded by the Irish Government.
Buddhist monks were killed when military leaders in the Asian country cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrations in September.
Bullets in the Alms Bowl, which contains eyewitness accounts of 50 people entangled in the so-called Saffron Revolution, will be unveiled by Minister for Micheál Martin at his Iveagh House offices in Dublin.
Burma Action Ireland and the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma will be represented at the event today.
Burma Action Ireland claims Burma has one of the world’s worst human rights records and more than 1,100 political prisoners.
The crackdown on democracy protests in September killed at least 31 people, three times the official count, with up to 4,000 arrested and 1,000 detained, a report by a UN rights envoy found.
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was granted the freedom of Dublin and Galway cities, recently had her period of house arrest extended and is now in her 13th year of detention.
The ruling junta was heavily criticised for its relief efforts in response to the devastation left by Cyclone Nargis.