Sulejman Vokshi was born in Gjakova to a Patriotic Albanian family from Voksh in Kosovo.

[3] In 1878, he was one of the orchestrators of the attack against Ottoman marshal Mehmed Ali Pasha, an event that marked the first military action of the league.

[4] During the consequent Ottoman-Albanian conflict he fought alongside Haxhi Zeka, and Vokshi's Prizren League forces captured the cities of Üsküb (4 January 1881), Pristina and Mitrovica and parts of the Sanjak of Novi Pazar.

Vokshi was initially found guilty of treason and sentenced to death.

[2] The sentence was later commuted by sultan Abdul Hamid II to hard labour and imprisonment.