By Ferit Ramadani

The principle of individuality and the complete will to devote himself to the education of his people made Professor Sulejman Elezin a unique personality! No matter how hindered by all the opportunities to devote himself to his profession, he is absolutely inseparable from the hearts of his compatriots, from the consideration that generations preserve for him! Because, as much as he was able to do during that time of persecution in the sixties, and then during the seventies, when he took the diary in his hand and went out in front of the little ones to sow the light of knowledge, he became so loved by them that his kindness as a teacher spread everywhere, and he, with such eloquence, became an instigator to inspire the Albanians of Kicevo to continue their education!

As clear as he was about the topics he explained about the Albanian language, he was equally committed to shedding light on all the activities of the Albanian nation that the institutions of the system had long since silenced in textbooks! But, teacher Sula, who had the momentum of a gurgle, could not stop at the point of silence! He expanded to add meaning to all that meaning that was deteriorating and tending towards corruption. Towards destruction!

Sulejmani saw this sinister tendency as early as school days. Therefore, he tried to accumulate knowledge about Albanian culture, literature and history, which throughout his life would remain a primary preoccupation. With this dedication, he held classes! He explained about the Rilindas and their activities! He stigmatized the five-hundredth anniversary of Skanderbeg in the sixties, which became a year of great importance for the Albanian process!

Separately, he had explained about Luigj Gurakuqi and the bullets of traitors. For Mjeda! He had cried for Noli who passed away in America! And, like Migjeni of Free Verse, he became one with the hearts of little ones who resembled Luli the Vocer, to ignite their love for knowledge and to increase their hope of courage that; "good days will come after this"! At a time when the dominant views of the ideology of Yugoslav federalism became culminating in silencing the essence of Albanians, Sulejmani delved into the treatment of topics that had remained taboo and were not touched upon at all.

However, he showed his courage both in front of his colleagues and in front of the citizens of that area to keep all that patriotic idealism alive! But, the system that had prepared the strategy of obstacles got to the bottom of his consciousness! And prepared the persecutory measures to open the black file on him which was qualified as "inappropriate". And, he forced them to eavesdrop on who he associated with in Novosello, his native village! Who he went out with in the city. Where he went to work! And, what he talked about in class!

To gather facts to cover his punishment, the inquisitors of the system forced the masters of that time to enter the "wardrobe" of the class (as he confessed), to eavesdrop on him when he explained! Then they brought out witnesses who said that Sulejmani spoke to the students about Naim, who sang about the tall oaks of Albania! About Asdren, who wrote the Flag Anthem. About Ismail Qemali and Independence Day! The rest, according to the wishes of the persecutors, were added and sealed in the open chapters of the Black File for the Symbol of "unsuitability"! That's all it took for them to file charges and then sentence him to three years and six months in prison!

After the prison stay, which was done "in the name of the people", according to the dictates of the Titoist system of Yugoslav social federalism, only the little ones waited for him to enter their classroom! And the teacher was missing! The one who never wasted a minute or a second! The one who aimed to eradicate darkness and plant the light of knowledge, love and sincerity! He was prevented from becoming the waiting for the little ones at school! He became a longing and pain for the mother, father and the entire family! He became a pride and symbol of resistance for the Albanians!

However, for the system that singled him out as dangerous, he became an "unsuitable person" with a special number of hats, that every time the door was opened heavily with a creak to let in the rays of light, on its threshold stood the hyena gendarmes who handcuffed him and took him to the Shllajferno ward! There, where Avni Elmazi had spent a long time before him, and had written his diary: Idrizova - The House of Hell!

These original views of Professor Sula's resistance radiated a courageous glow to all the prisoners.

Even on the scale of Kicevo, and on the entire national level, the philosophy of resistance remained! The conception of all that was spread far and wide that Sula is immovable in ideals. He has remained the same in attitudes. In vain did those who threatened him, and those who promised to promote him to high state positions if he went according to their tact, try to put him on the rails of fluctuations! He remained self-determined in the positions that the ruling class which marked the fair development of citizens must definitely be undone.

Therefore, Professor Sula, also emphasized the criticism, the irony, the system and his morals broken in the concept based on scientific untruths! All these positions of his were contradictory to those that the basic organizations of the connection of the working people and the connection of the dwarf communists wanted to implement! Therefore, it became a permanent mark to strike and imprison him once again as a "separatist and irredentist" after the events of eighty-one, under the pretext that he is directly connected to that process! Once again, Professor Sula became the echo of a cry!

Namely, he became the defender of the cause that the invaders had corrupted by adding the assimilationist form everywhere! Starting from the first moment of the Albanian's birth until the last farewell from life. Therefore, Professor Sula stood up categorically to deny these prolonged forms of colonizing assimilation. And he spoke about the toponyms, about the surnames, about the naming of babies, which became the architecture of the Orthodox rise! And about many other injustices that characterized the stage of the eighties!

And, for this, the system dismissed him as "unsuitable", while for "rest" it sent him to the rest room of the Kicevo prison for three months, to eat the languorous gluttony from the plate that even the guards' gluttony had eaten!!! All of these were a balance of the ugliness and perversions that the inquisitorial system drew up in the persecution of intellectuals. All of these became the balance of Professor Sula's concentration, to survive his silent departure for exile without a travel passport, and without an exit visa! During that dark night of eighty-six he became the true light!

He captured the mountains and fields of his homeland to stay with longing and love outside the chaos and chaos! However, he always stood by the cause with his soul and heart, which originated as the ethics of the voice of distance, far away in Canada and then in America for fifteen years! Professor Sula, the symbol of "inadequacy", the man with the number of the Idrizovo cow, became the emblem of the persecuted asylum seeker! Even as such, he was not defeated! He stood at the forefront of every action that was launched for an independent Kosovo!

For the light and development of the Albanians! If mountain with mountain does not meet, the Homeland with its sons will meet! However, Professor Sulë, just as he left silently, returned silently to rest in his bosom! Only the echo of pain and the tears that were shed that Sunday, December 10, 2000, were transformed into a true rebirth! That long sea of ​​sad people walking behind the hearse, spoke with silence that the lifeless body of the eternal Professor Sulejman Elezi returned to the land of the homeland…!/ Memorie.al