The phrase "alienated population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of people who feel isolated or disconnected from society or a community.
Example: "The alienated population in urban areas often struggles to find support and resources to improve their living conditions."
Alternatives: "disenfranchised group" or "isolated community".
In the process, human rights groups say, its brutal tactics alienated the population.
"Far from securing Helmand, British forces alienated the population, mobilised local armed resistance and drew in foreign fighters seeking jihad".
Ham-handed military tactics, which included indiscriminate artillery bombardment, have further alienated a population that simply wants the fighting to end.
Yasser Arafat's periodic attempts to placate Israel by cracking down with his brutal security services alienated the population, as did graft among his officials.
During his reign, Alexander pacified Palestine by naming Jonathan Maccabeus as Jewish governor but alienated the population by his revelry while feigning interest in politics and Stoic philosophy.
Insurgent groups in Somalia have increasingly alienated the population by imposing a harsh interpretation of Islam, stoning people to death and amputating the hands and feet of thieves.
Then, instead of paying attention to the problems this created, the Bush administration focused on Iraq, leaving Afghanistan to fester under a policy of benign neglect that alienated the population against the Karzai government and the American occupation.
Men, women and children flooded the rubble strewn center of town and shouted out slogans against the Shabab, who have steadily alienated the population by imposing amputations and digging up the graves of revered Islamic clerics.
Tactics like this, Lansdale saw, only alienated the population, and he advocated what he called "civic action," which he defined, in an article in Foreign Affairs in 1964, as "an extension of military courtesy, in which the soldier citizen becomes the brotherly protector of the civilian citizen".
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (known commonly as Ibn Saʿūd), the son of the exiled ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, took advantage of his new location to acquire useful knowledge of world affairs, while the new Rashīdī prince, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Mitʿab, alienated the population of Najd.
