Donald Rumsfeld has denied a request by U.N. investigators to interview detainees at guantanamo who are suspected of being force fed.

Force feeding is a particularly nasty form of torture used by the Chinese against members of the Falun Gong. Many people die from having tubes brutally inserted into their mouths and noses which results in vomiting blood and often leads to death.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1597412,00.html

Rumsfeld claims that the prisoners are staging a hunger strike to gain publicity.

Is this his rationale for force feeding?