Battle of the Buliok Complex

Battle of the Buliok Complex
	Part of the Moro conflict
	; Barangay Buliok is located in Pagalungan, Maguindanao province
Date	11 February 2003
Location	Pagalungan, Maguindanao, Philippines6°58′09″N 124°45′07″E / 6.9693°N 124.7520°E
Result	Philippine government victory
Belligerents
Philippines Armed Forces of the Philippines;	Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Commanders and leaders
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; Narciso Abaya;	Salamat Hashim; Murad Ebrahim;
Casualties and losses
8 killed	161 killed (Philippine government source); 40 killed (MILF source)
	7 civilians killed; 41,000 residents displaced; 3 – 100 evacuees died

The Battle of the Buliok Complex took place on 11 February 2003 in an area within the provinces of Maguindanao and Cotabato in Mindanao, Philippines. The 60-hectare complex, which stretches from Pikit, Cotabato to Pagalungan, Maguindanao, was a stronghold of the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Accused by the Philippine government of harboring members of Pentagon, a notorious kidnap-for-ransom gang operating in Mindanao, the MILF was attacked in the Buliok complex by the Armed Forces of the Philippines under orders from then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.