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He wasn't deported, he was kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp.
That's called a deportation though: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deportations
til deportations aren't just sending them to a different country, and out-of-the-country camps count as deportating (not sarcasm, I seriouslly didn't know that)
It's a strategy to call it that
That's because it's bullshit to use the same term for both completely different things
Ethnic cleansing
In this case being more verbose makes sense. The current public-knowledge definition doesn't cover this case, so it makes sense to describe exactly what happened.