Opinion By Suleman ChiteraIn Malawi today, poverty has quietly become a crime—one punished without trial, without mercy, and without apology. Police insist they are “just doing their job.” Yet their job seems to begin and end with the poor. For the poor, justice is fast, harsh, and final. Until Malawi confronts these uncomfortable truths, the justice system will remain unjust, governance will remain hollow, and the poor will remain condemned—not by law, but by neglect, cruelty, and silence. But in Malawi today, it is treated as one.