Protests last week in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, which left nearly 10 people dead, continue in some cities in Sulaimani province.

Some experts have blamed the recent protests on non-payment of government clerks and youth unemployment. However, Renad Mansour, head of the Iraq program at Chatham House in London, warned that job creation could no longer calm protesters and that his protests would target the governing system.

He told the British section of Deutsche Welle that the ruling parties in the Kurdistan Region may not be able to appease the protesters through the slogan of independence or party support and job creation and this is where the use of force against the protestors may increase.

Zamkan Ali, a senior researcher at the Institute for International and Regional Studies, also confirmed Renad Mansour's statements and warned that protesters in the Kurdistan Region are losing confidence in the system of governance, adding that they see the distance between themselves and the elites of the Kurdistan Region and they are very angry about this.

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