DRC as an ongoing conflict country in which several NGOs including the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights [1] and the UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict [2] have been operating for the best of the Congolese people. There are many areas where specialized NGOs have been intervening in the country either to end the abuse of children as combatants or serious human rights violations. In the history of UN mission, DRC is the country that has received the biggest mission with a deployment of some 22,016 military [3] and civilian personnel. This is an indication that this country has been in serious trouble with abuses of all kind.
Today, the country is at a defining moment whether to continue installing democratic society through legitimate elections or disrupting all efforts that have been deployed to stop chaotic environment that followed the collapse of 32 years of dictatorship, which disintegrated the political-socioeconomic tissue of the country. In 2006, the DRC held its very first democratic presidential election that was unfortunately darkened by military confrontation in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, as a result of lack of trustfulness between the winner of the election, Kabila and his opponent, Bemba.
In 2011 with the second experience on free election, DRC was hunt by the same pre or post election violence, but this time around the violence erupts between security forces and supporters of Etienne Tshisekedi, the oldest opponent to the incumbent President, Joseph Kabila. The opponent was banned from holding a campaign rally in the Kinshasa the last day of the campaign. Tshisekedi blocked at N’djili international airport before his supporters.
Each time DRC holds election there is a spiral violence before and after the election and UN NGOs on ground such UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights that systematically collects information regarding human rights violation to periodically publish a report. This somehow helps for a pushback from those who use some power they hold on the population or sometime callout authorities on their role to maintain peace. However, in course of any election the international community fear pre and post election violence. That said, it has been death already for the coming election that is supposed to be held in November 2016 as required by the DRC constitution and in meanwhile the path to get there bore death in January 2015 when Congolese people protested against the government project to revise the law suspected to delay the election.
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