Vietnam organisations line up to condemn NATO HANOI - Numerous Vietnamese official organisations have condemned NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia, with the country's students and farmers the latest groups to join the chorus. Official media on Monday quoted the Vietnam Students' Association as saying ``NATO had brazenly violated fundamental human rights'' in Yugoslavia. The Vietnam Farmers' Association demanded NATO end its attacks on Yugoslavia and said a peaceful solution should be found to the crisis in the Serbian province of Kosovo. Communist-ruled Vietnam has been sharply critical of NATO air strikes, designed to force Belgrade to accept an international peace plan for Kosovo. Besides government criticism of the strikes, the Vietnam Journalists' Association, the Vietnam Bankers' Association, the Vietnam Lawyers' Association, the Vietnam Women's Union and the Vietnam Red Cross have lined up to condemn NATO. All mass organisations in Vietnam come under the umbrella of the Communist Party-controlled Fatherland Front. In their condemnation of NATO, many official groups have recalled U.S. air strikes against Hanoi and other northern areas during the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975 when communist forces defeated the Washington-backed former Saigon regime. Reuters - April 12, 1999.