Soaring suicide rates, murder and forced to live by the roadside on scraps: How one of the Amazon's oldest tribes faces being wiped out by ranchers scaring them off their land in a 'silent genocide'
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Thousands of members of the Guarani Indian tribe have been aggressively evicted from their ancestral land in Brazil
Guarani people claim land owners - or 'ranchers' - are paying mercenaries to assassinate leaders and scare them off
Violence escalated recently as groups of Guarani tribesmen attempted to retake the land that was stolen from them
400,000 lived in continent when European colonisers made contact in 16th Century - but tens of thousands remain
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