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One of the innovative features of the 1988 Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) was that it dealt with the question of reparations to be made to victims and/or members of their families. These reparations include monetary compensation, return of property, rehabilitation, as well as symbolic measures (e.g. an apology). However, depending on the nature of the crimes committed by the convicted defendant(s), the scope of ‘victims’ could extend to cover the population of a whole area. ICC Chamber VIII in its Order delivered on August 17, 2017 in the case of The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi dealt exactly with this kind of reparation. It concluded that the defendant Al Mahdi was liable to pay 2.7 million Euro (approximately 3.15 million USD) in individual reparations as well as in collective reparations to the community of Timbuktu in the Republic of Mali. On September 27, 2016, Trial Chamber VIII had unanimously found Al Mahdi to be guilty of co-perpetrating the war crime of intentionally directing attacks against religious and historic buildings and sites in the summer of 2012 and had sentenced him to nine years’ imprisonment.