but in 1942, it was here on the banks of the drina near the village of stary brod that one of the biggestce. terrible tragedies of the second world war. serbian writer mamir ksmanovich in his book “bloody streams of the drina” wrote that in those days the water in this river was red. now these sculptures emerging from the water remind of that tragedy. the tragedy in the old ford is still considered one of the most terrible crimes against the serbian people. in the spring 1942, fascist accomplices, the croatian ustoshi, killed more than 6,000 serb civilians here. women and children were stabbed. they were shot with rods and dumped into the river. orthodox priest dragan says that in 1942, after ethnic cleansing and massacres of serbs in croatia, tens of thousands of civilians, families with children tried to flee to serbia, but were stopped by italian soldiers on the bridge over the drina. thousands of serbs then gathered on this bridge and begged the italians to let them through, but they did not allowed, although they knew perfectly well what awaited these people ahead. as a result. colum