The gunmen, who terrorised Northern Uganda for more than 20 years, have a turned a remote area of north-eastern Congo into their new killing ground.
An offensive mounted by Uganda’s army appears to have scattered the insurgents, who are now carrying out brutal revenge attacks on innocent villagers.
Scores of people were hacked and burned to death in a massacre inside a church on Boxing Day. Since then, mass killings have taken place in the towns of Duru, Faradje and Doruma.
Margarida Fawke, from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, said the situation was “catastrophic”.
She added: “The villages are getting burnt, the people are getting killed. We are getting reports that all the female bodies found are naked, so we assume they were raped before they were killed.”
Duru has endured its second attack by the LRA. Last year, most of the town was burned to the ground and 65 children abducted from its school.