Taiwan to screen film on Uighur leader

       Taiwan's secondlargest city said yesterday it would show a film about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer,further angering China which is still fuming about the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the island.
       The documentary,The 10 Conditions of Love , will screen four times tomorrow and Wednesday ahead of an annual film festival in Kaohsiung whose mayor Chen Chu is backed by Taiwan's anti-China opposition party.
       "To draw the curtains over this con-troversy as soon as possible, the film will be screened ahead of schedule,"the city said in a statement.
       Chinese officials say that Ms Kadeer,a former businesswoman who now leads exile group the World Uighur Congress,orchestrated ethnic violence in July in Xinjiang, a largely ethnic Uighur region of northwest China, killing about 200 people.
       She denies the allegation.China's state-run television said the government agency in charge of Taiwan affairs denounced the decision to show the film, which it said distorted the truth and sent the wrong message on terrorism.
       "We urge Kaohsiung not to cling to this reckless decision and disrupt cross strait relations," it said in a report quoting the Taiwan Affairs Office.
       Kaohsiung and several oppositionled Taiwan counties irked Beijing this month when they invited the Dalai Lama to pray for victims of typhoon Morakot,which killed up to 770 people, mostly in mudslides.