Battle of the Buliok Complex

Battle of the Buliok Complex
	Part of the Moro conflict
	; Barangay Buliok is located in Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur
Date	11 February 2003
Location	Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur, 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; 118 killed (MILF source); 86 wounded (MILF source)	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 present provinces of Maguindanao del Sur and Cotabato in Mindanao, Philippines. The 60-hectare complex, which stretches from Pikit to Pagalungan, 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.