All these similarities had led to more recent comparison of the LTTE leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran,to him by present day Tamil nationalists, Karunanidhi ex Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in his book, Payum Puli Pandara Vanniyan, and Nedumaran.
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The kingdom of Vanniars Vanni functioned as a buffer zone between the North and the South of Sri Lanka or Ceylon.