FACTBOX-Uganda's LRA rebels on killing spree

Dec 29 (Reuters) - Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed 189 people during three days of raids on villages in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo last week, a U.N. agency said on Monday, citing local officials.

Here are some details about the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels and their leader Joseph Kony:

WHAT HAS HAPPENED:

* Thousands of people have been killed and 2 million displaced during the 22 years of fighting between Kony's rebels and the Ugandan government. The conflict has destabilised parts of oil-producing south Sudan and mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

* The U.N. humanitarian agency OCHA said on Monday that the latest killings were reported to have been carried out between Dec. 25 and Dec. 27 in Faradje, Doruma and Gurba villages by LRA fighters fleeing a two-week-old multinational military offensive.

* Uganda, Congo and South Sudan launched the joint assault on LRA bases in northeast Congo on Dec. 14 after Kony again failed to sign a peace deal to end the fighting.

* A landmark truce had been signed in August 2006 and was later renewed. But talks brokered by south Sudan collapsed in April 2008 after Kony failed to sign the pact as planned.

* Mediators gave Kony until the end of November to give his final approval to the peace deal. However, he failed to sign and told traditional elders at the end of November he would not sign a deal until an international arrest warrant for him is scrapped.