I appreciate your tagline. Particularly right now. The bona-fides of the World Court and its establishment as a ruling entity was apparently so important that the lives of the defendants and their witnesses were forfeit.
Stalin shared that philosophy.
This is a title of his article from 1974: Live Not By Lies
He believed that people can be freed from opression by sticking to the truth, and that they can be enslaved by abetting the lie.