The “Srebrenica cover-up” story was improvised to explain the embarrassing dearth of bodies of execution victims that became manifest shortly after exhumations began. As late as the Krstić trial judgment in 2001, even the Prosecution friendly Chamber was forced to admit that no satisfactory evidence of a Srebrenica cover-up, involving the massive reburial of bodies to conceal traces of the crime, had been presented (Krstić Trial Judgment, Par. 257). The situation changed fundamentaly in the next Srebrenica trial, of Blagojević and Jokić, where Bratunac Brigade security officer Momir Nikolić, who had previously signed a plea bargain agreement with the Prosecution in exchange for a lower sentence, appeared as a witness to claim that just such a cover-up with body transfers had taken place, partly with his participation. Curiously, the Prosecution in that and the succeeding trials where Nikolić testified never produced any other witnesses to corroborate his story. It is hardly conceivable that the operation of unearthing, moving, and reburying several hundred tons of human flesh could have been performed by a single individual. The inherently improbable claim, however, has become a Hague Tribunal settled judicial fact. British journalist and former BBC editor Jonathan Rooper explains the cover-up concoction.