Josipovic said that between 30,000 and 40,000 people had been killed in the camp complex and stressed that Croatia's anti-Fascist movement and the struggle of the Partizans were pillars of the Croatian statehood.
The contemporary continuation of that struggle was the just and defensive Homeland Defence War (in the first half of 1990s), and all that led to the establishment of the independent and democratic Croatia, the president said at the commemoration at which the reconstructed plaque was unveiled.
Speaking of the successful performance of the denazification of Germany, Josipovic said Croatia's history had not been completely valorised and that there were too many destroyed monuments and forgotten victims, such as those in Jadovno.
"Therefore we will reconstruct all our monuments. I will insist on seeing to it that will be done," he said.
In this context, he praised the government for the reconstruction of the monument in Srb, Lika in front of which the forthcoming celebration of the anti-Fascist rebellion of people will be held on 27 July.
Speaking on behalf of the Alliance of the Anti-Fascist Fighters of Croatia (SABAH), Mirko Mecava condemned attempts to equate "sporadic atrocities" committed by the Partisans in WWII and "the systematic state terror of the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945 NDH)."
The head of the Jewish community in Zagreb, Ognjen Kraus, also raised his voice against attempts to equate those crimes and against "the policy of making reconciliation conditional on such equal treatment".
"We reject that ideological deal. We insist on saying clearly who took which sides, who was the victim, who were the fighters and eventually victors and who were butchers, criminals and the defeated ones," Kraus said.
He supported an idea on erecting a central monument with the ossuary at Jadovno in order to bury in a dignified manner remains of victims who he said had been scattered in 32 pits in the area.
The Croatian Serb National Council's head, Milorad Pupovac, joined in the condemnation of the policy of consigning to oblivion those crimes.
Pupovac said that Ustasha crimes, which were a result of the policy of the state genocide, later triggered off a policy of revenge and retaliation.
"At this place Serbs, Jews and Croatians were victims of insane hatred only because there was no place for them in the idea of the state such as the NDH", he said at the Jadovno commemoration.
Serbian President Boris Tadic's envoy, Mladjan Djordjevic, laid a wreath for all victims of the Ustasha terror and called for showing love rather than hatred at this place.
The commemoration brought together representatives of anti-fascists, Jewish communities in Croatia, the Banja Luka-based Jadovno 1941 association, and envoys of Serbian President Tadic and of the Bosnian Serb entity's Prime Minister Milorad Dodik.