evidence: Parliamentary and Presidential elections were scheduled for May 2002. However, on October 4, 2001, Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission announced the suspension of the registration of voters for the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. "The commission’s acting chairman, Alhaji Musa King, told journalists that the suspension was due to the low speed of taking arms away from different groups in many parts of the country." 4 [...] - "Sierra Leone: National Electoral Commission suspends voter registration," BBC Monitoring Africa, October 5, 2001. [...] Request for assistance from the international community in monitoring the next presidential and parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone