Suppress something

[majidkh]

Hello
Is it OK to use suppress instead of repress in the following sentences?

1- But, how incomplete is our political system today; does it satisfy or repress its citizens?

2- The government repress the people/peasants.

3- So, after practicing lifting her bed with the powers of her mind, she is ready to face anything or anyone who tries to repress her.

4- UN banned him from repressing his people.

5- Turkish kurds have been repressed for decades by the Ankara government.

Thanks a lot.

[poli]

Originally Posted by majidkh

Hello
Is it OK to use suppress instead of repress in the following sentences?

1- But, how incomplete is our political system today; does it satisfy or repress its citizens?

2- The government repress the people/peasants.

3- So, after practicing lifting her bed with the powers of her mind, she is ready to face anything or anyone who tries to repress her.

4- UN banned him from repressing his people.

5- Turkish kurds have been repressed for decades by the Ankara government.

Thanks a lot.

Good question:
Supress is often used for censoring information. The government supressed the information. Therefore it was not common knowledge.

Repression has more to do with people. Repressed people have no voice.
Repressed peoples' words are supressed.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Suppressing citizens is a very serious crime... they're usually just repressed.

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by poli

Suppress is often used for censoring information.

I wonder whether that's a special case of a more general usage: you suppress an activity. So you would talk about suppressing a mutiny, for example. Suppressing a newspaper might just be a shorthand for suppressing the publication of that newspaper.

[Tomisimo]

You suppress words, information, knowledge, truth, etc.
You repress people, events, actions, etc.
(it's not really cut and dried, but I think this will help to explain it)

[majidkh]

Thank you guys for your replies.

I'm not still quite sure that I understood your explanations clearly .
What I interpreted from your comments ,the use of suppress is not OK in these contexts(except AngelicaDeAlquezar that argued doing so makes a bit difference in the sentences).If I misinterpreted , please explain what difference in meaning is made when using the two words in the sentences?

Regards.

[EmpanadaRica]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

You suppress words, information, knowledge, truth, etc.
You repress people, events, actions, etc.
(it's not really cut and dried, but I think this will help to explain it)

Well besides this, I think there is also the psychological connotation with 'repress'. ' Repressed feelings' especially, or 'repressed thoughts' or 'repressed sexuality'....(Freudian slips and so on..)